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I'm sympathetic to your skepticism of claims like "X can cure cancer," especially when they can be interpreted as folk remedies unproven by the scientific metho
by teachrdan 8y ago
I'm sympathetic to your skepticism of claims like "X can cure cancer," especially when they can be interpreted as folk remedies unproven by the scientific method.
Having said that, the 2015 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine was a Chinese doctor who re-discovered a traditional cure for malaria.[0] While this is obviously only a single example, it goes to show that, in recent memory, there was at least one time a significant medical advancement came from traditional Chinese medicine.
0. https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-34451386 https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-34451386
- bpicolo 8y agoThere are a lot of medicines derived from plants - are there any proven medicines that are derived from animal products (minus things that are directly body-things like insulin)?